And yet, you know, all are making for the same goal, all are striving in the same direction anyway, from the sage to the lowest robber, only by different paths. This is an old truth, but what is new here is this: I cannot get very confused. Because I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people. Fyodor Dostoevsky The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
I listened to The Dream of a Ridiculous Man on audiobook today at work, i've read it before...forgot how intense it was, too many feels for the workplace lol I was in an office in the US but my soul vas in Russia
That's a powerful statement. I find just regurgitating really smart people's ideas can even be alienating.
Yes I dont want to say anything else for fear it will sound like i'm bragging about my intelligence But yeah.
You expertly side stepped many potential landmines here. Well played, mellymcmelerson, well played indeed.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” - Mahatma Gandhi The imbalance in the human system is due to the limited nature of the senses and the unlimited nature of the desires. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as most people do. His previously mistaken sense of personal volition and responsibility has disappeared in such freedom and joy that life is now just an amusing spectacle like a game or a dream, in which he has no real part. - Ramesh Balsekar
Thought alone, when it is no longer connected with the much vaster realm of consciousness, quickly becomes barren, insane, destructive. ~ Eckhart Tolle When scientific or rational thinking is grounded in presence it has a completely different outcome. It can never be monstrous. ~ Jean Klein